Liz Ahl
@surlyacres.bsky.social
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it's a coup
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Find Out Why Health Insurance Denied Your Claim
You likely have the right to access records that explain why your insurer denied your claim or prior authorization request. Use ProPublica’s free tool to generate a letter requesting your claim file f...
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD
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Look at it! 🤣 It’s called a flattened clown beetle and apparently, it stinks, too. 🤣!!! It’s out there slipping into cracks and crevices, pinching people and looking like a clown shoe.
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geoffrey (festively)
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[screaming at the top of my lungs, once again] the fundamental technology of humanity is care
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Oooh. I love this!
amandalitman.substack.com/p/our-year-o...
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Our year of Saturday dinners
Reporting back on our 2025 resolution and details on what we'll do for 2026
https://amandalitman.substack.com/p/our-year-of-saturday-dinners?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
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Rebecca Colesworthy
3 months ago
Good news! The full table of contents for THE CAMPUS CRISIS TOOLKIT, edited by
@thetattooedprof.bsky.social
and Lisa Di Bartolommeo, is now available on the
@sunypress.bsky.social
website:
sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-...
. Follow the link or see next post for screenshots. 🤗
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The Campus Crisis Toolkit
https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Campus-Crisis-Toolkit
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[we] "would hang on the stairs and ledges of the night the way angels are shown to lounge on clouds, waiting for something to go terribly wrong" I love this poem, love how Hayden's poem shimmers alongside it.…
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Forced Air
By Ellen McGrath Smith
https://open.substack.com/pub/swwimmiami/p/forced-air?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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HAD
10 days ago
crow & aaron doing a last call of the year. open right NOW, for 150 submissions... and then again this evening for another 150. (please only submit to one.) especially looking for stuff about the holidays and/or "endings" all genre 500 word max
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Let this poem sneak up on you.
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Good Enough
By D M Gordon
https://open.substack.com/pub/swwimmiami/p/good-enough?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
10 days ago
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what the actual lavender-scented FUCK?!?!
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12 days ago
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David Gerstein
13 days ago
Because every women's studies course needs to give angry 45-year-old male drunks—who don't go to the school and often aren't in the same state—an opportunity to learn what's on tap and menace the faculty. (h/t
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Thanks so much,
@swwim.bsky.social
, for choosing this poem to share, and for curating/hosting such a great platform for art!
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"This is happening despite employers investing billions in wellness apps, engagement programs and other strategies. Many organizations are pouring money into individual coping tools while systematically removing the very infrastructure needed for community."
theconversation.com/the-price-of...
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The price of belonging is inconvenience. Are we still willing to pay it?
Every time we choose people over convenience, we invest in community. The real question in our homes, workplaces and democracies is whether we are willing to pay that price.
https://theconversation.com/the-price-of-belonging-is-inconvenience-are-we-still-willing-to-pay-it-270778
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Matthew Cheney
17 days ago
An interview at
@insidehighered.com
with my now-former supervisor and always-forever friend
@robinderosa.net
about her job elimination, the situation at our school, and the sad state of higher ed generally:
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
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3 Questions for Learning Innovator and Scholar Robin DeRosa
A conversation about transitions, scarcity and alternative academic careers.
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/learning-innovation/2025/12/11/3-questions-learning-innovator-and-scholar-robin#
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Zack Furness
17 days ago
I wrote a new piece for
@pghcitypaper.com
about loving analog media in a digital world. If you’re someone who’s into vinyl, film photography, print media, and invaluable local businesses, you should check it out! I also coin the phrase “techno-bummerism” lol
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In a digital world, Pittsburgh is an analog paradise
At places like Galaxie Electronics and Bernie's Photo Center, young people are relearning the joys of vinyl, film, and slowing down.
https://www.pghcitypaper.com/arts-entertainment-2/arts-entertainment/analog-repair-shops-pittsburgh-galaxie-electronics-bruces-photo-center-vinyl-film/
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What a gift a trusted reader is for a working writer! Here's a poem I wrote about one particularly trusted reader. Thanks, Lavender Review, for including it in this latest issue.
www.lavrev.net/2025/12/liz-...
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Liz Ahl
Trusted Reader —for K (as much as any reader could be trusted to close their hands—not too tightly or too loosely—around what you put there...
https://www.lavrev.net/2025/12/liz-ahl.html
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I think everything should come from horseshoe crabs. Or! Tulips!
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Sacred Vows
By Taylor Franson-Thiel
https://open.substack.com/pub/swwimmiami/p/sacred-vows?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
23 days ago
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Jeff Sharlet
24 days ago
My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.
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jamelle
24 days ago
this really isn’t an exaggeration
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25 days ago
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Been working for weeks trying to write something about exiting academia. This branched off of that. When the larger "something about exiting academia" will be finished is anybody's guess.
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Separation Irony
In October of this year, I agreed to take a voluntary “separation incentive package” (aka a “buyout”) from the public university where I have been a full-time professor of E…
https://lizahl.com/2025/12/03/separation-irony/
25 days ago
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A.R. Moxon
26 days ago
Increasingly tech is seeking to solve for the problem "humans exist," which is what you'd expect to see in a system where humans are seen as a cost and not a value.
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Hypervisible
26 days ago
Judging from the quotes in here, university admins are some of the least “ai literate” people in existence. No wonder they think students need to be taught how to use it.
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After mass AI college-cheating freakout, many admissions offices are using it to screen student applications | Fortune
It wasn't long ago they began banning student use of it for homework or test-taking. Admissions offices are different, though.
https://fortune.com/2025/12/02/college-admission-applications-ai-cheating-ban-student-use/
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Adam Serwer
26 days ago
If you think your job is not to tell the truth but to "challenge your audience's assumptions" if the latter is in tension with the former then you're going to end up lying.
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Matthew Cheney
27 days ago
For World AIDS Day, here's a piece I wrote in 2016 about the effect of growing up queer during the crisis era, and the way books (library books especially) were essential to surviving those days.
lithub.com/reading-and-...
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Reading and Writing My Way Through the AIDS Crisis
The last third of A Long Gay Book records the discovery of the new reality. She confronts a world of magnificent, joyous chaos where no connections are given, no relations taken for granted, and ev…
https://lithub.com/reading-and-writing-my-way-through-the-aids-crisis/
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Matthew Cheney
27 days ago
Essential reading.
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This! Listen to the end.
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27 days ago
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Joshua Goodman
27 days ago
We first note that hand-wringing about the decline in US college enrollments has mistakenly linked such declines to the price of four-year colleges. But the decline is entirely driven by two-year community colleges (and by for-profit colleges). The four-year sector is the dog that didn't bark.
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Matthew Hodson
28 days ago
I was diagnosed with
#HIV
in 1998, when I was 30. Many of my friends had died of AIDS. I did not expect to live to 50. I’m 58 now. HIV treatment works. Treatment also makes it impossible for me to pass HIV on during sex. Ensure HIV treatment for all. End HIV stigma.
#WorldAIDSDay
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A poem I wrote. Snowflakes outside now instead of swallowtails.
28 days ago
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David M. Perry
29 days ago
Hey I wrote this and got a lot of hate mail so maybe you can share it
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Really appreciated this podcast/conversation with
@hypervisible.blacksky.app
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kBg...
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How Big Tech Has Convinced Us to Surveil Ourselves and Each Other
YouTube video by 404 Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kBgnjn5cC0
about 1 month ago
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Alyssa Harad
about 1 month ago
I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.
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"Once you let go of the idea that you have to be a reliable narrator, you can begin to consider letting go of the idea of being a narrator at all." —Richard Siken
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An Encyclopedia of the Self: An Interview with Richard Siken About "I Do Know Some Things" - Chicago Review of Books
Our interview with Richard Siken about his new collection, "I Do Know Some Things."
https://tinyurl.com/yvyt8nsv
about 1 month ago
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Dr. Mike Sell
about 1 month ago
Since this article and its perspectives are generating a bit of buzz, I'd like to dig into what I find distasteful and, frankly, disingenous about it, particularly the ethical values it proclaims. 1/8
www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/history-professor-ai-cheating-students_n_69178150e4b0781acfd62540
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Great, sharable resources!
#zines
#resist
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about 1 month ago
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Alexander Chee
about 1 month ago
One way I have found to mourn someone is to set up a monthly sustaining donation to a mutual aid effort they cared about. If you can join me in honoring Alice Wong,
@sfdirewolf.bsky.social
with a sustaining donation today, please do. Thank you Alice, and I will not let the bastards grind me down.
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Dr. Thrasher wants you to pre-order The Overseer Class
about 1 month ago
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
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Here's one of two poems I'm happy to have included in the new "Birds of a Feather" issue of The Fourth River --
www.thefourthriver.com/o16-poetry/2...
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The Crows and My Mother — The Fourth River
by Liz Ahl
https://www.thefourthriver.com/o16-poetry/2025/11/12/the-crows-and-my-mother
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Katie Mack
6 months ago
Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
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Michael Hobbes
about 2 months ago
No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"
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Michael Hobbes
about 2 months ago
From the outside it might look like ICE officers wear masks to avoid accountability, but in reality they are a way to avoid accountability.
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about 2 months ago
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cait (and adonis)
about 2 months ago
a few months ago I said "having generative AI handle absolutely anything with regards to healthcare is a nightmare and should be banned" and a bunch of people made fun of me and called me stupid. anyways,
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Alan Elrod
about 2 months ago
I honestly don’t get the value of this company. They hoover up energy and water. Their product constantly gets things wrong and, in extreme cases, coaches people into suicide. And it’s all built on what seems to be malicious and vast intellectual property theft. What does OpenAI offer the world?
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Tressie McMillan Cottom
about 2 months ago
A friend recently texted me the same thing. “Do you really not use ChatGPT?!” It was a sign of where we are culturally on this. People are compelled to use it but also starting to question the normalcy?
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I didn't know when I chose them that these treasures by Natalie Diaz &
@ired0mi.bsky.social
would be the last books I taught as an English prof (taking a last minute buyout in grim conditions). These books, individually, are terrific. Together, in conversation? Holy smokes. Revelation & balm, both.
about 2 months ago
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Ashton Pittman
about 2 months ago
NEW: Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the state Senate tonight for the first time since 2011. It came as Democrats flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat. “Mississippi just broke the supermajority—and the people have taken back their power,” the party says.
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Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-democrats-break-republican-senate-supermajority-flipping-3-legislative-seats/
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Bailey McCann
about 2 months ago
This person took this when they called the race
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"You have had days like this, no doubt. And wasn’t it wonderful, finally, to leave the room? Ah, what a moment! As for myself, I swung the door open. And there was the wordless, singing world. And I ran for my life."
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Mary Oliver: Work, Sometimes — MedHumChat
I was sad all day, and why not. There I was, books piled on both sides of the table, paper stacked up, words falling off my tongue. The robins had been a long time singing, and now it was begin...
https://www.medhumchat.com/discussionguides/2021/3/17/mary-oliver-work-sometimes
about 2 months ago
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Prisonculture
about 2 months ago
In this November edition of Prisons, Prose & Protest, I give a brief history of a radical higher education experiment from late-1960s Berkeley. I recommend two podcast episodes, several good recent articles and essays, and more…
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Prisons, Prose & Protest - #32
Rants, Musings and More
https://open.substack.com/pub/prisonculture/p/prisons-prose-and-protest-32?r=iw9zm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
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